The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living."
Charlotte Perkins GilmanI was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanIts time we woke up,โ pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. โWomen are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools - but whoโs to blame for that? We invent all those idiotic hats of theirs, and design their crazy fashions, and whatโs more, if a woman is courageous enough to wear common-sense clothes - and shoes - which of us wants to dance with her?
Charlotte Perkins Gilman